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Article: Flyboys: a True Story of Courage.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Military Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
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FLYBOYS: A True Story of Courage, James Bradley, Little Brown and Company, New York, 400 pages, $25.95.
Flyboys, a great, haunting work, quickly engages readers. James Bradley, the bestselling author of Flags of Our Fathers (Bantam New York, 2000) tells the remarkable tale of aviators and their courage in the Pacific during World War II. Bradley contacted Bill Doran who attended the trials of the Japanese defendants following the war. Doran had signed a nondisclosure statement following the proceedings, but he always believed the aviator's story needed to be told. With the information declassified, he could.
The story began on the island of Chichi Jima. ...